Health Care Philanthropy
2021
Sanford Health
Gift: $300 million
Purpose: To expand opportunities in graduate medical education and community health and wellness, positioning Sanford Health as a global leader in rural care delivery.
2019
Sanford Health
Gift: $25 million
Purpose: To support PHASeR (Pharmacogenomics Action for Cancer Survivorship), a program created by Sanford Health in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, that will offer free genetic testing to VA patients.
2018
Sanford Health
Gift: $1 million
Purpose: To support an endowment for Ava’s House by Sanford, a multigenerational hospice facility that offers one of only four in-patient hospice programs for children and young adults.
2014
Sanford Health
Gift: $125 million
Purpose: To launch Sanford Imagenetics, the first program of its kind in the nation to fully integrate genetics and genomic medicine into primary care for adults.
2011
Sanford Health
Gift: $100 million
Purpose: To launch the Edith Sanford Breast Center initiative dedicated to unlocking each woman’s genetic code to advance today’s prevention and treatment of breast cancer. The gift also allowed for the construction of the Edith Sanford Breast Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, opened in 2016, which is integrating the initiative’s research into patient care.
2010
Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, Calif.
Gift: $50 million
Purpose: To support and further expand and accelerate the institute’s medical research.
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Florida Hospital, Orlando, Fla.
Gift: $10 million
Purpose: To create a state-of-the-art pediatric hospital.
2008
San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (now the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine), San Diego, California
Gift: $30 million
Purpose: To build and equip a facility where scientists from the consortium’s four member institutions can collaborate on world-class stem cell research.
2007
Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System (renamed Sanford Health)
Gift: $400 million
Purpose: To open a chain of pediatric clinics around the world (today known as Sanford World Clinic); to launch The Sanford Project, a research effort to cure type 1 diabetes; to allow growth in all areas of Sanford Research, make significant commitments toward unique initiatives in health research and create the Sanford Children’s Health Research Center; and to implement a new approach to health care campus and facility design supporting the activities of the system.
Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California
Gift: $20 million
Purpose: To create two Sanford Children’s Health Research Centers—one in La Jolla, and another in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and facilitate collaboration in childhood disease research.
2006
University of South Dakota School of Medicine (now Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota)
Gift: $20 million
Purpose: To enhance the scope, reputation, resources and quality of medical education, with special interest in fostering the further growth and development of the pediatrics department.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Gift: $15 million
Purpose: To support a pediatric outpatient center and to endow collaborative research and education programs involving the clinic and Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
2004
Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System
Gift: $16 million
Purpose: To build a state-of-the-art, stand-alone children’s hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
